My Google experience was somewhat different. Entering "Perl tutorial" as a phrase, I only had 195,000 hits. I checked out the first 21 (I'd have stopped at 20, but the last page was in German so I continued to the next English-language page).

More about makefiles than Perl.

Not found.

Outdated tutorial for Perl 4

Perl 4 tutorial.

Not horrible, but uses some deprecated code.

Last update was in 1999

Discusses Perl 5.6.0; written in 2001

Dated 1999

PerlMonks!

Dates to 2000

Dated 1999 – discusses how to work with RSS

Discusses how to select the correct database

Author states, “…I’m not an expert with Perl”.

Gave me a blank page when I tried to access this link.

Discusses Perl 5.005

Referenced page did not have the word “Perl” on it; search options did not return any hits for “Perl”.

Tutorial from 1995.

This was a page linking to sites purporting to teach Perl; did not have any information about Perl on the page itself.

Decent tutorial for someone who knows some programming. Not for the complete novice.

German-language page that I cannot evaluate.

Link to Perl.com!

Almost all these links were useless, especially to a complete newbie to programming. The only ones that seemed good were the ones to PerlMonks and perl.com, and #19. Numbers 5 and 7 weren't altogether useless. Overall, only 25% of these sites appeared to be helpful. The rest were not (IMNSHO).